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It's a pretty challenging time right

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now . In our theaters here ,

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we have the largest war in Europe in

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over seven decades .

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We have a pace of government coups in

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Africa at its highest in over six

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decades .

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And even in the area of humanitarian

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assistance and disaster relief , we had

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the largest earthquake in Europe in

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over 11 decades . Last year .

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My name is Stuart Munch . I'm the

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commander of allied joint force Command

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Naples and also us naval forces .

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Europe and Africa . NATO is a 360

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degree alliance looking at its

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geographic perimeter and working with

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our allied nations . It's , it's all on

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a bedrock of trust . So a willingness

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to work together and a sacrifice for

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one another , every one of the 32

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nations that's in NATO has pledged to

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defend all the other nations and we

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take that trust and we convert that

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into interoperability which we turn

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into warfighting advantage and

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ultimately , that enables us to deter

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and defend against any threat to NATO .

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There was a time due to the other

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pressing operational environments in

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the theater . I didn't have an ship for

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one of our aircraft carriers and So I

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called up one of our allied nations to

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see if they could provide an . And

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before I could even finish the sentence ,

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that chief of the navy said the ship .

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And so it's a pretty serious element of

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trust that without fully knowing what I

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needed it for , he was willing to say

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yes and likewise , it's trust in my

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part that I would trust the protection

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of one of our carriers with almost 5000

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Americans on board to one of their

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ships working together is the center of

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gravity within NATO . It's really what

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makes NATO as powerful as it is and all

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nations contribute . You know , no

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nation is big enough to do it all . No

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nation is too small to not contribute .

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And that's the real value in these

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partnerships that we have . Well ,

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happy 75th anniversary to NATO and also

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happy 249th birthday to the United

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States .